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Should a member function that returns a static member variable also be static?
For instance:
struct T {
static int i;
static int getNumber() {
return i;
}
};
Should getNumber be static or not?
Usually, yes.
If the variable doesn’t have any per-instance state, then what possible per-instance logic could the function perform on it before returning it?